Powerful earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria, causing thousands of deaths in Turkey’s worst seismic event in decades. WSJ explains why the meeting of three tectonic plates under the region mean ...

By MICHAEL STARR People sit around a fire near the site of a collapsed building, as the search for survivors continues, in the aftermath of an earthquake, in Kahramanmaras, Turkey February 9 ...

More than 11,000 people have been confirmed dead as a result of the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria on Monday Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE.

Thousands of people were killed and thousands more injured after two huge earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria on Monday. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said that a powerful magnitude 7 ...